Makdisi Op-Ed in LA Times Replete with False Charges Against Israel
UCLA professor Saree Makdisi weighed in on the Israel/Hezbollah war with an LA Times Op-Ed. filled with false charges against Israel.
Saree Makdisi
Makdisi’s Revisionist History on Hezbollah Rockets
In a July 19 Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, UCLA English professor Saree Makdisi minimizes Hezbollah's provocation of the crisis with Israel by distorting the chronology of events.
License to Err on SF Chronicle Opinion Pages
The San Francisco Chronicle claims to "strive for accuracy" and promises to "quickly correct errors or misleading statements." Yet its opinion pages serve as a haven for patently inaccurate anti-Israel allegations, and no corrections appear to be forthcoming.
Makdisi Smears Sharon in LA Times
Saree Makdisi, a professor of English and comparative literature at UCLA, and a nephew of Edward Said, has inherited his uncle's political outlook ‑ an opposition to the existence of the state of Israel. Like Said, Makdisi has channeled his animosity into publishing anti‑Israel screeds full of false rhetoric. He has become, for instance, a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, despite a November 2004 Op‑Ed which was corrected due to factual errors and distortions.
LA Times ‘Correction’ on Binational State Op-Ed Further Misleads
Saree Makdisi, an English professor at UCLA, made falsified charges against Israel to bolster his case that the country is a racist, illegitimate state unworthy of existence. The Los Angeles Times' partial correction yesterday of distorted charges regarding the West Bank security barrier does not inform readers, but further misleads them.
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